Children’s Center - September 2016 Archives

According to the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety, 33 children are injured in farming-related accidents every day. On average, a ...

An outbreak of hand-foot-and-mouth disease has been reported in various parts of the United States. Mayo Clinic infectious diseases specialist Dr. Pritish Tosh says, "Hand-foot-and-mouth ...

A cancer diagnosis is upsetting at any age but even more so when the patient is a child. According to the National Institutes of Health, it’s estimated ...

There are health risks for children who are given codeine for coughs or pain. Dr. Randall Flick, director of Mayo Clinic Children's Center, says, "Last year, ...

The night before 8-year-old Evie McLeish’s brain surgery, her Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon David Daniels, M.D., Ph.D., told her parents, "I don’t want you to think of this as the end. This is just the beginning of a marathon." The procedure was the start of Evie’s long-term care plan for treatment of a brain tumor. Along with the brain surgery, that plan included chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Due to her age and the location of her tumor, though, her doctors recommended Evie receive proton beam therapy instead of conventional radiation therapy. The timing was right. Mayo Clinic had just begun a new Proton Beam Therapy Program at its Rochester, Minnesota, campus. And not only was this unique treatment readily available to Evie, it was relatively close to her family’s home in Ankeny, Iowa, just a three-hour drive away. "We were dealt a big blow with Evie’s tumor," says her mother, Ali McLeish. "But there have been silver linings in this whole thing, including that we could get proton beam therapy without having to travel across the country." 

Fewer than 3 in 10 high school students get at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Having Olympic withdrawal? Us, too. That's why we were excited to find out the competition in Rio isn't quite over yet. The 2016 Summer Paralympics ...

If your child is running a fever and you're running late to work, what do you do? Should you keep your child home or send ...

After a long day at school, a nutritious snack can fuel your student's growing body and avoid an attitude meltdown. These afternoon servings of food provide energy for the ...